Sentences with phrase «so disproportionate»

Did the parties ever anticipate that the allowable liquidated damages could be so disproportionate to the minor nature of those breaches?

The Court of Appeals ruled that the liquidated damages under the contract were so disproportionate to any actual damages that they were unenforceable penalty.

The starting point for the Court's assessment of a «fair fee» remains the parties» agreement, but the dollar amount ultimately charged must not be so disproportionate to the work done as to impugn the integrity of the legal profession.

Specifically, if the intrusion on the person's privacy and body would be so disproportionate to society's interest in the proper administration of justice, to the extent that any concerns can not be ameliorated by variations of the order, the court is not required to make a DNA order.

«The issue the court will address is whether the award against the tobacco maker was so disproportionate to the injury as to violate the constitutional guarantee of due process.

The adherents of the «No Excuse» model believe that the best route to creating safe, healthy and productive school environments is to ensure that children don't deviate from the rules and that the price of non-compliance is punishments that are so disproportionate that the children learn to comply or leave the school for good.

They're so disproportionate to the rest of my body too — it's weird!

I am very flat chested and am finally in shape and feel so disproportionate.

«Moreover, even if there had been some public interest in the fact that the claimant was under investigation, the way that the BBC went about publishing the «story» was so disproportionate, and so intrusive, as to render it unlawful.»

Not exact matches

Tourists may not understand the process, so they may spend a disproportionate amount of time at a ticket kiosk.

Banks don't want to do that, because they generally fund their operations with disproportionate amounts of debt, and they maintain that their profitability — as well as our economy's growth — depends on their continuing to do so.

So California could have a disproportionate number of homeowners who claim the mortgage interest deduction, compared to other states with lower home values.

So what is it — aside perhaps from arrested development — that accounts for such disproportionate emotional investment in the ultimately insignificant?

Their ability to communicate across racial lines and the cultural expectation that they do so has given them social and political clout disproportionate to their numbers.

Earlier I identified, in order to fault it, the conception that all modern war is inherently indiscriminate and disproportionate in its destruction, so that modern war as such must be opposed.

They are surrogates, which is a way of saying that they are agencies by which God works; they are not substitutes, although much of the time, in our foolishness and defection, we regard them as such — and in so regarding them bring about a state of affairs which is disproportionate and destructive.

A disproportionate amount of biased gay articles when there are so many newsworthy items that deserve unbiased reporting.

This not only represents a huge impact on what is available for humans, but it is a disproportionate share for only one of 30 million or so species of animals!

The resultant squad, wherein the talent is distributed in markedly uneven measure and so certain injuries can have a disproportionate effect on the team.

Most of us recognise that your editorial slant is slowly moving to become more «anti-Board», and there's every reason for it to do so, but this strength of response to a fairly innocuous post seems disproportionate.

«I taken the decision to call elections so as to ease the tension, which I believe to be disproportionate and doesn't reflect the reality of the club,» Bartomeu said.

Conversely, over-parenting — where academic achievements are elevated above emotional needs — creates a disproportionate reliance on external affirmation, so the child doesn't possess the internal resources to overcome unexpected challenges and is liable to crumple at the first obstacle.

Influencers have massively disproportionate number of followers, so the goal is clear — find your influencers and tap into their networks.

According to Cuomo, parole voting restrictions have a disproportionate impact on New Yorkers of color, with African Americans and Hispanic New Yorkers comprising 71 percent of the population so disenfranchised.

And because each vote counts for so much more, mainstream parties contort themselves to look like the parties that are «stealing their votes» — just look at the disproportionate influence of Ukip.

So, far from a Northern Powerhouse he offers the north disproportionate cuts and a business rates reform that hits areas facing economic disasters like Teesside's this month hardest of all.

Fortunately there is enough evidence out there that suggests where police authorities have abandoned their racial dragnet approach and focused more on intelligence - led policing, three aspects not so miraculously happen: disproportionate stop and search figures go down, crime detection goes up and community relations between the police and those they seek to serve dramatically improve.

It was the disproportionate weight given to MPs» votes that made the result so close.

The bill would have amended current laws so that only people who used «grossly disproportionate force» against intruders on their property would have been liable for prosecution.

Officials are looking at whether work rules can be changed to cut overtime costs, whether higher - paid, veteran workers are receiving a disproportionate amount of overtime and whether it makes sense to hire more police officers rather than paying so much overtime.

Trying to navigate a dicey issue for a Democrat running for governor, Andrew Cuomo said Tuesday that public - employee pensions are «disproportionate,» but he wouldn't go so far as to back a plan to shift more of the cost — and risk — to workers.

It is my belief that five legislators either wholly or mostly contained within the Town of Ramapo would shift the resources of County government to Ramapo to the detriment of the other towns so that a disproportionate share of county government taxpayer money, would be spent in Ramapo such as on drainage, road improvements etc. and may not be equitably shared across town lines.

Yes, but I know that 80 percent of the people who own Cadillacs are Republicans, so I know there's a disproportionate application of the law.»

So a tiny tip rip gets a disproportionate number of nociceptors, none of which knows the difference between a vacation brochure and a samurai sword.

Even so, if genetic information has a disproportionate effect in getting people to heed advice that they should be following anyway, that could be a strong force for improving public health.

«It's important they've found this gene, but it took a sample of 20,000 people to find it, precisely because the effect is so small,» says Robert Plomin at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, and lead author of a groundbreaking study in 2007 which failed to find any single genes of disproportionate importance in intelligence.

(If we can adapt to a world with low - biodiversity, disproportionate damage to the poor, etc., so much the worse for them.)

Candidates have to tailor their messages to small numbers of voters in the early primaries, so a few thousand people in New Hampshire and a handful of other states have a disproportionate influence on the direction of the presidential race.

There was something unsettling and creepily disproportionate about the idea that Congress couldn't muster the will to improve energy efficiency, so it voted to change time itself — but leave that aside.

I'm so short waisted that tucking it in makes me look disproportionate.

«People are burned out because they're spending so much time on their mobile phones and they're swiping... and the percentage of those swipes to actually meeting in person is really disproportionate,» says Julie Spira, founder of CyberDatingExpert.com.

While I love the usual slow deliberate pacing, H8 actually felt slow at times — or like you said so well: disproportionate chapters.

So when Blair Witch turned out to be just another forgettable found - footage freakout — one without a fraction of the suggestive power of the zero - budget original — my letdown was probably disproportionate to the film's run - of - the - mill mediocrity.

Perhaps the responses are so profound and unexpected that these stories are getting disproportionate attention.

That's the so - called «bubble hypothesis,» which has been used to explain disproportionate gains we've seen by students who are near the center of the distribution.

But both of these also accurately reflect the way in which bodies of work and successful books can have a disproportionate impact on public discussion — so I'm disinclined to see any problems in such a «bias.»

Even so, the disproportionate rise in the incidence of LD, especially among adolescents, does raise questions about the methods of identifying and treating learning disabilities.

When we think about middle schoolers, we know that for many of them, stress, depression, anger, and boredom can be completely out of whack and disproportionate, so it becomes essential that we design lessons to coax information towards the prefrontal cortex.

The City of Manukau Education Trust is a not - for - profit organization established to work in a city with a disproportionate number of poorly educated people, so it was ideally suited to develop and implement this unusual approach.

«And there are so many issues and such a disproportionate rate of college completion, that a program like this certainly speaks to a need.»